Shipley in the Domesday Book (1086)
Shipley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Morleystone in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Morleystone
- Bradley
- Breadsall
- Breaston
- Cellesdene
- Chaddesden
- Codnor
- Crich
- Denby
- Derby
- Draycott
- Duffield
- Hallam
- Heanor
- Herdebi
The Meaning of the Name
The name Shipley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Shipley.
Listed Buildings Near Shipley
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Shipley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
Grade II
- Colliery Road Bridge to Southern End of Shipley Reservoir at Sk 446 438 - 0.57 km
- Paul’s Arm Bridge to Southern End of Shipley Reservoir at Sk 444 438 - 0.62 km
- Gatepiers and Wall at Nottingham Lodge at Sk 440443 - 0.62 km
- Nottingham Lodge - 0.63 km
- Former Water Tower to Shipley Hall South of Home Farm - 0.96 km
- Derby Lodge - 1.02 km
- Western Gatepiers and Walls to Derby Lodge at Sk 435 444 - 1.03 km
- The Gardens - 1.05 km
Shipley Today
Today Shipley lies within the administrative area of Amber Valley, and the settlement recorded a population of 795 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Shipley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Shipley
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© Garth Newton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen McKay · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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